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English Wheel Tooling EXPERT Shares Top Polishing Techniques
In this video Wray polished the lower anvils and the top wheel on our English Wheel but we have a new twist! This time he is also using a polishing wheel after using the 600 grit sandpaper.
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hi it's Ray from proch shaer Workshop
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we're going to be changing out this
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Anvil to another Anvil and then we're
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going to be cleaning up the top wheel
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and the Anvil this feature here I have
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in it allows you to Crank It Up on a
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rack and pinion system then it locks
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right here and here lift up the
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wheel and I have a storage facility over
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there for the wheels I'll put it so it'
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be nice and safe I put the wheel in you
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got to hold the rack and pinion so it
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won't drop down
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hard and just kiss it against there lock
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it and then generally I use about an
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inch of thread up here on my adjuster
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I'll back that off a bunch so next I'm
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going to show you how to clean this
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wheel up now I've done a couple videos
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probably about four years ago how do I
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clean the wheels but I got a new twist
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this is the spinner this is a drum
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sander here that you can get at McMaster
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Car and uh let's see I'll turn this
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actually counterclockwise we'll try that
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you can do it both ways I think though
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and then uh we use a hob Freight grinder
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I think they're still about $32 they
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were $ 29 or something and then we make
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this little adapter these are made for
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just a four or 5 in grinding disc we
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make this little adapter which changes
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the thread size so it can accept the
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foam pads we sell the foam pads and the
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adapter on on our website pros
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[Applause]
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shaper.int this up now these these are
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pretty clean already they're not that
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bad but I want to get them really nice
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so I got 600 sandpaper on the foam
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[Music]
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pad let me a look at it now these anvils
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are not hardened I don't have hard lower
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anvil in the shop I really don't see the
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advantage to uh hardened lower anvils
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other than if you're going to be going
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over snotty Wells if you grind your
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wells down there'll be no problem with
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aluminum there's like no problem
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whatsoever with steel there could be a
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problem now I've had students for 18
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years using these wheels and they they
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would bug up the wheels once in a while
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but they're very easy to unbug by just
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sanding them down if they've got a gouge
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in them or something you have to start
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with like 120 paper then go to 220 320
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400 600 you can go to 12200 you go to
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2,000 or whatever you want but I've got
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a new system I'll show you so this this
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is pretty good it's got a few little
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minor scratches in it which I could get
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out I might hit it once more this is a a
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hardened top wheel it's probably 60
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Rockwell or so so this never gets marked
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up uh the disadvantage of having
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hardened Wheels is very hard to profile
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them in a different way if you buy a
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wheel from a manufacturer and there's
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like half a dozen them around the world
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that are making these nobody no big
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companies make the anvils it's always a
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a small outfit making the anvils and a
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lot of them have no idea how to make an
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anvil they just see a drawing and make
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it and uh there is a a science to it and
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there's a little a little bit of
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Witchcraft almost or magic to it so uh
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and and anvils have different uses I
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mean uh technically I on this machine I
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only use three anvils that's it and if I
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need to do a specific job I've got 15
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English wheels in the shop here so I can
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go to the other wheels and get that
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specific job done but that's only like
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less than 2 or 3% of the time these
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anvils the three anvils I use on this
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machine pretty much will make any
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Automotive panel that I need other than
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some super detailed little uh detail so
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let me hit this once more I'll sand it
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some more then we'll do the top and then
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I'll show you the new
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twist again that's 600 sandpaper that
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brings it up to a pretty pretty fine
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finish but we can make it better the
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better the surface of your Anvil and
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your top wheel and especially your top
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wheel because that's the top of the
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panel that it's working on it it prints
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that surface so if you have a mirror
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finish on your top wheel you will get
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mirror finish on your surfaces of the
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panel you're working on and you can
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further improve the panel surface
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quality by buffing it after you uh work
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it into the shape you want so that's the
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lower Anvil that's polished pretty nice
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now now we'll do the top
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wheel now why do we have to polish the
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the surfaces here one the better of the
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surface the better of the panel two what
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happens is when you use this uh on
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aluminum even in steel uh the metal will
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actually flake off so a tiny little
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micro speec of aluminum
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will flake off the piece of aluminum
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you're working on it'll stick on the
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wheel and your wheel in a way oblivious
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and all of a sudden it looks like the
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craters of the Moon on the panel so you
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got to be observant all the time and
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watch your panel if you see any little
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uh flaws these little divots showing up
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and they'll repeat the pattern over and
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over and over again a million times if
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you're not paying attention you've got
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to keep your wheel clean so on the top
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wheel is especially important important
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if you get a little pickup of aluminum
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or steel and also there's you know just
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dust in the air a bad hair can fall in a
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hair can fall out of your head whatever
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it's it's always happening it happens in
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a in a power hammer too but it's more
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prone on an English wheel so you got to
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be digilant and watch for foreign matter
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on your surfaces that you're Wheeling
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all the time so now we're going to do
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the little twist I said we got these
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cleaned up pretty nice that leaves sort
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of a little um uh spiral staytion from
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the 600 grit you probably could get
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those out by going up to 1 1200 then
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2,000 and you can go to I don't know
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what they got today probably go to 5,000
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paper or something I I drop off at 12200
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I haven't chased that demon at all so
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next we're going to do is we'll buff it
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now you can bring it over to a buffer
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and you buff like this if it drops it
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hits the ground it's not a good thing
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plus it's pretty heavy to bring this
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wheel over a buffer now he used to use a
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right angle grinder with a 6 or 8 in
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buff wheel and those things are can be
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pretty nasty we discovered this new
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twist these flap buffing wheels I saw
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those I think maybe on either eBay or
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both eBay and Facebook and I says oh boy
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I'll give those a try because I like the
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idea that when you're using a right
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angle grinder like this to buff and the
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buffer there it's throwing the stuff
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right at you and when you got it this
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way now it's throwing it sideways so I
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like that a lot so there was two types
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that they had advertised they had this
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one this is a a felt that's probably
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boxy bonded or something to this plastic
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backer meant for the small grinder and
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this one has uh I don't know what that
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material is called but it's super strong
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they use it on grinding uh pad backups
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and on grinding disc and also on flap
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discs obviously it's a uh some kind of
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fiberglass mesh embedded in there so
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it's super strong and um I haven't broke
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one of these I went through a couple
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couple packages of them I think they
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come in like six in a package and
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originally it was like under $15 but I
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think they're up to 20 bucks now of
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course they're made in China and uh
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they're super high quality product I
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can't say enough of them I don't know
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the name if you search around for a 5 in
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or 4in buffer this is 5 in this is the
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preferable one you're going to find them
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so uh quick
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demo uh you got a bunch of different
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roues on this is the a polishing Rouge a
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white Rouge and um we also have a a red
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Rouge which is a nightmare it works
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really good it's more aggressive and we
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just did this huge um uh architectural
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job making these pal tree FRS and it all
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it was all out of brass and we had to
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polish them and it was all kinds of
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polishing and it ends up all over here
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it was over my shoes it was on the floor
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it was just a total disaster the rug
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that we had in the office uh we had to
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tear the whole rug up and we we've got
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some tile and we put the tile in I made
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a little video of that before so let's
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put this Rouge on
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here and then just hit this this
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this easy peasy as you can see and the
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job is just unbelievable it does leave
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some buffing marcks and you there's a
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bunch of different uh uh compounds that
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you can use on that to take the just
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like painting you'll get the the swirl
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marks and stuff but it does a beautiful
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job it's quick it's neat uh and you
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don't have to use the red uh you can use
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the white if you've got it up to a nice
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step already now this is straight out of
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the English wheel uh if you wanted this
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perfect you would you would sand it in
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One Direction and then bring that up to
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like uh 600 and then hit it with this
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sanding in One Direction would get all
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the little undulations out uh which you
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could do better with the English wheel
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we weren't being super fussy when we
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wheeled this out so now we're going to
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take this we'll put some more Rouge on
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it and we'll use it to Puff buff the
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wheel now this can get out of control
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and that you can spin it you know lots
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of RPM but you can change the RPM by way
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the way you hit it if you go one way and
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just leave it that way it's going to
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spin up like crazy if you counteract it
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by going like that you're going to be
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breaking it and and stopping all that
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[Music]
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motion so that's got a pretty nice
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polish on it we can wash that with Lac
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thiner that'll take a little bit of the
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buffing Rouge that might be uh hanging
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around there now I put some more Rouge
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on and do the top
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now the rule of thumb is when you're
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buffing or grinding you always go off an
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edge so if you saw her over here was
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getting grabbed by The Edge in that case
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here the proper way to do it would be to
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come over
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[Music]
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here that should be good enough now wash
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that with lacer thinner and uh we should
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be ready to roll thanks for watching
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it's Ray from Pro shaper Workshop in
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Charlton Massachusetts
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